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lees1975

(3,718 posts)
Mon Jul 18, 2022, 01:59 PM Jul 2022

Some voters in a deep red West Virginia county like Bernie Sanders

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/07/people-in-one-of-west-virginias-deepest.html

We need to think creatively. West Virginia would have benefitted tremendously from both of the signature bills that the Biden Administration has proposed and the people there need to know that. And they need to know who's standing in their way. We don't have much time, Democrats. The GOP is offering nothing. We should be out in front on this.

Sanders' message resonates with voters there because he sides with the marginalized and disenfranchised and against corporate wealth and power. He is exactly the right person to be critical of Senator Manchin's obstructionism. The political pundits say that if there's a Democrat challenge to Manchin's re-election bid in 2024, the party will lose the seat. And that's probably the case. But a true, independent populist, who speaks the language of the people like Sanders does, might just be able to pull it off.

West Virginians get ignored. It's not a big state, it's now down to just 4 electoral votes and it isn't high on the list of corporate headquarters or big business. I spent summers trudging up and down rural roads in the mountains, going up and down the "hollers" selling books to earn college money in Mingo and McDowell Counties. My parents grew up there and had to leave when there was no work to be found. It's a beautiful place, and yes, while it is remote, isolated and lacks a lot of educational and community resources, the people who live there are Americans who deserve to have the same opportunities as everyone else does. They want a hand up not a hand out, and that's what they could have had from this most recent bill that the Biden Administration wanted to get passed.
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Some voters in a deep red West Virginia county like Bernie Sanders (Original Post) lees1975 Jul 2022 OP
Manchin is BOUGHT by Big Coal and Gas.. ProudMNDemocrat Jul 2022 #1
Imagine people who attended a town hall featuring Sanders like Sanders. nt Phoenix61 Jul 2022 #2
Well, here's ONE of their problems........ MyOwnPeace Jul 2022 #3
I make no bones about it slightlv Jul 2022 #4

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,484 posts)
1. Manchin is BOUGHT by Big Coal and Gas..
Mon Jul 18, 2022, 02:03 PM
Jul 2022

But all Joe Manchin cares about is POWER. He couldn't care less about what the residents of WV need or would benefit from what is being proposed that they know would help their state.

MyOwnPeace

(16,888 posts)
3. Well, here's ONE of their problems........
Mon Jul 18, 2022, 02:29 PM
Jul 2022

"It's not a big state, it's now down to just 4 electoral votes."

And yet ONE 'man' - Munchkin - can carry as much 'power' as one of the Senators from the largest states in the US.His vote represents one-tenth of the people from California, yet HE has the power to stop a program that a MAJORITY of Americans want.

Oh - another problem - Munchkin ONLY cares about 'Big Oil/Coal' and 'Big Pharma.' While many of his 'voters' may work for them, THEY are not the ones sending the checks for the yacht and Maserati......

slightlv

(2,635 posts)
4. I make no bones about it
Mon Jul 18, 2022, 03:59 PM
Jul 2022

I love Bernie. I love what he stands for. I love for how he stands for us. Is he perfect? Of course not. He's a man, for one thing. He's a human, for another thing. But he is one of the poorest of the congressional representatives, proving he's not in congress for himself, he's in it for us. He tries. His biggest problem, like most of us, is his age.

We need someone with his charisma, his sense of purpose, his fire... who is 20-30 years younger than him to take his mantle and learn from him. To become his apprentice and lead the charge. I don't think Bernie is so egotistic to try to hold on to the "power" that he would turn away someone wanting to learn from him. But who do we have who could fit this mold? He took Elizabeth Warren and welcomed her into the fold and multiplied her voice. But Warren is as old as the rest of us.

And, as much as I hate to say this, women are DOOMED in this cycle. To run a woman in this election cycle is to kiss success goodbye. I hate to say this, because I AM a woman, and I dearly want to see a female president, and I think a female president would be the success we need to get this country back on track. But it's not going to fly in this country right now. YMMV, of course. I realize that. But bear with me, under my preconceived notions at the moment. What male do we have who could run for president who could run in the mold of Bernie? I think this is exactly the type of individual we need to run. Biden could do it, be he needs FIRE. He doesn't exude Fire. He exudes quiet calm. Quiet calm is great when things are going good, or when things are weird on the other side of the world. Not with the situation we have against the R's and the Scotus. We're too close to losing our country. People are too close to losing everything they have. I'm talking not only democracy... I'm also talking kitchen table issues... inflation, social security, civil rights, marriage laws, etc. Things people are fired up about.

Biden is a great man... more important than even that... Biden is a GOOD man. He is the kind of man you want to tell your kids to emulate. But I worry his "friends on the other side of the aisle" are about to stab him in the back and he's not recognizing it; instead, he's hoping for Hoyle's Book of Rules to prevail, still. Teach the rules, but be ready too throw the book to the four winds and do what's necessary to save the country. We're too close to Midterms and I'm getting "jittery"...

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